The Florida Senate

205.194  Prohibition of local occupational licensure without exhibition of state license or registration.--

(1)  Any person applying for or renewing a local occupational license for the licensing period beginning October 1, 1985, to practice any profession regulated by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, or any board or commission thereof, must exhibit an active state certificate, registration, or license, or proof of copy of the same, before such local occupational license may be issued. Thereafter, only persons applying for the first time for a local occupational license must exhibit such certification, registration, or license.

(2)  The Department of Business and Professional Regulation shall, by August 1 of each year, supply to the local official who issues local occupational licenses a current list of professions it regulates and information regarding those persons for whom local occupational licenses should not be renewed due to the suspension, revocation, or inactivation of such person's state license, certificate, or registration. The official who issues local occupational licenses shall not renew such license unless such person can exhibit an active state certificate, registration, or license.

(3)  This section shall not apply to s. 489.113, s. 489.117, s. 489.119, s. 489.131, s. 489.511, s. 489.513, s. 489.521, or s. 489.537

History.--s. 34, ch. 85-175; s. 1, ch. 85-278; s. 12, ch. 94-218.